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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 530 posts.
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Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.
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Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
A personal piece about writing, self-doubt, and the quiet ways perfectionism can stall creative work.
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Thoughts on the Resiliency of Web Projects
I just did a massive spring cleaning of one of my servers, trying to clean up what has become quite the mess of clutter. For every website on the server, I either:
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You too can write a book
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Notes on Guyana
Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-on-uh), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes whil…
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Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure
The research looked at data from more than 14,000 volunteers and shows the importance of activities that raise heart rate for blood pressure control– such as uphill walking or stair-climbing, into your day may help to lower blood pressure.
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Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management
[2025-03-31 Mon] : Clarification: The recording is not available for this conversation, but both Adam and John are okay with this post, so here are the notes. =)
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The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
A personal perspective on the complex role English plays in Japan.
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Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should
I investigated the various standards available for storing and presenting recipes on the web
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Programmer in Berlin: Culture
This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them. Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general, is that it’s relatively left-wing when compared to the…
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Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Writing is one of the most powerful forms of communication, and it’s useful in a multitude of roles and contexts. As a blog-writing , documentation-authoring , twitter-shitposting DevEx engineer I spend a lot of my time writing. Recently, someone paid me a very nice compliment about a blog I’d written and asked how…
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It's called a dance floor
Pound-for-pound, Vogue by Madonna is one of the most remarkable examples of artificial stereophonic sound ever produced.
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Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)
Created in late 1960s in the style of underground comics, Cheap Thrills is one of the most iconic album covers in history. This is the story of the art and the artist behind it.
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In Memory of Stiver
On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily devel
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Stop saying "just" (2019)
Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?
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Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
Stanford researchers hope new technique will flip lymphoma protein's normal action - from preventing cell death to triggering it.
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If you need the money, don't take the job
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
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How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Whether you want to get more sleep, wake up earlier, or change your nighttime routine, learn science-backed tips for to going to sleep earlier.
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What is the point of an online conference?
My experience of online conferences has mostly been underwhelming. They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference should even be the same as an in-person conference.
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Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
I’ve been a programmer since the age of 8, and some kind of developer for most of my life. Throughout my life as a coder, both hobbyist and professional, I’ve learnt plenty of programming languages that felt like cookie-cutter clones of each other, but also a few programming languages that changed the way I looked at…
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Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late
This aesthetic screenshot of an old windows app has been in my inspiration space for ~5 years. Until recently, I assumed that it was just a nostalgia bait concept.
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So long WordPress
This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, for my entire tech career. That said, it has been in the making for quite a while now and it is time that I make it official. I’ve officially left the WordPress project after…
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School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
Learning is a consequence of doing
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Crossing the USA by Train
Today, I get to start a train trip I've always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!
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